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Like we can see that time is passing but all of the ways that we use to track it just dont work anymore.

Hi all, need a fence installed, collecting quotes. Eastern CT. Any recommended companies? Tia!

We are trying to come to a decision about our dog. A trainer our vet recommended wants $5k for six weeks board and train. She is reactive to strangers, vehicles, chases delivery trucks (on the occasion that they show up unexpectedly such as today, memorial day (wtf are there really no holidays anymore? ) and I happen to have her off leash in the yard. She also pees in the house pretty much every day. I have to keep her gated in the kitchen, or on a leash inside the house to keep her from peeing on the floor. If we have to leave the house i keep her contained and medicated and we can leave for a couple hours usually but if its more than two or three she pees on the floor and will poo as well at some point. I take her outside to potty every couple of hours. Shes an adult dog she should be able to hokd it more than two hours.

We would like to keep her, she's a sweet funny lovable stinker, but she is a LOT.

My main worry about sending her to a professional trainer is that we will invest all this money and the training will just be undone if we go on vacation or have to leave her alone for 6-8 hours or something. Im wondering how tied into the separation anxiety the other problems are?

Anyone have this happen where you train it out of them and then all that work is undone the next time something stressful happens to the dog?

I want to put up a fence so we dont have to worry about her chasing trucks but husband is against it. He wants to get a trainer instead. Im just not convinced that will be a one and done solution.

Just for fun, I need a laugh. What are some good jokes that you've *told*? Brilliant quips? Biting dry sarcastic witicisms? What did you say that got a good laugh or made you proud of your own comedic skills?

My daughter has ADHD and anxiety with selective mutism. She is the age now are working on her getting a drivers license 😰. She loses the ability to speak if she is angry, scared, nervous, etc and has a very difficult time talking to strangers. I'm concerned about what will happen when she inevitably gets pulled over by a cop or has an accident or something. Any advice here? Tia

If I find a bcp that adequately controls the peri symptoms, it inevitably causes daily nausea. If it doesn't cause nausea, I end up with only a modest reduction on peri symptoms. Anybody else in a similar bind find a solution? I can take zofran because Im on an SNRI.

I'm in my forties and have had pierced ears since I was a kid. I have two standard holes in each earlobe. I have had to have them all repierced many times. Idk why but even after being open and in regular use for years, sometimes they just close up again. Both holes in my left ear closed up about two years ago. Got the bottom one repierced again. Kept the piercing stud in for six weeks, cleaned, no problems with it. Took it out to put in regular earring for the first time and.... Cant get them through. Tried a bunch of different types of earrings. Couldnt get the piercing stud to go back in either. Eventually gave up.

Id like to wear earrings again. Idc if its only one instead of two. How should I deal with this? Have it repierced with a needle and maybe a slightly larger guage? Should I get a new hole between the other two?

Advice please! Ty!

I noticed signs of mouse activity in my cabinets today, so I decided to set some traps. Im in my nightgown still just staying home and doing housework this morning, no bra on (now is the time to jump ship if you know where its going and you dont like that port of call) So Im dabbing peanut butter in four traps, then I armed them, and then, stupidly, I tried to move all four of them at once. Well I set one off, which made me jump and set the others off, and to my astonishment when they all went clattering to the floor and countertop, one of them had successfully caught *my left nipple*. What was really surprising though was that it didnt hurt at all. I waited for some kind of delayed pang thay never came. Just took it off and reset them. Thought I'd share.

I wasn't sure how to flair this post. Not sure what I'm looking for either, or if this is even the right sub for this. I've never told anyone this, not even my husband because I am too ashamed.

I was exposed to pornography when I was very young, maybe six years old. I had an older cousin who found my father's porn stash and she showed me. I was fascinated and would go look at the magazines often. He had porn on vhs tapes too and when I was alone in the house I would watch them. So I continually exposed myself to porn throughout my childhood. My parents never caught me or, more likely, they knew or suspected but avoided and ignored the problem because it would have been a difficult conversation. That was their style.

I became somewhat sex obsessed as a teenager. Slept with a lot of people looking for something that wasnt real. It screwed up my relationship with sex completely, has caused problems in my marriage that I can't explain to my husband. I also became fixated on violence and death and terror. My parents let me watch whatever violent, bloody, gorey tv and movies I wanted pretty much. Of course then I was afraid to go to sleep at night because of monsters and murderers and diseases. Sometimes I couldn't sleep even after my parents went to bed and I'd watch one of my dad's porn movies on mute. This stopped by the time I was about 13 because my dad walked out on us. (literally left in the middle of the night, didnt say goodbye to me, that level of avoidance) But the damage was done and I wouldnt even realize how much it fucked me up until I was probably about 40.

I know it wasnt my fault, but I'm still too ashamed to talk about it since I was the one who was hurting myself over and over. You wouldnt think that seeing a bunch of 1970s and 80s porn (all very vanilla) could screw up a kid, but it can.

Is "continuous" use of birth control pills supposed to be actually continuous use of the active pills every month or are you "supposed" to stop them and have a period every three months? Gp and gyno have both said thats what my option is since the symptoms during the inactive pills and for a week or so after them have been debilitating. But is it necessary to even have that happen once every three months? I cant seem to get a straight answer out of them if a period is necessary at all. Is there something that happens during those "off" days thats necessary to prevent long term health problems? Do you need it for bone density or heart health or anything? They have had me try out four different types of bcp over the last year or so. Think the one Im on now works the best out of all the ones Ive tried but gyno made it seem like it was this or that, like I could have good symptom control during the month on this higher dose pill but suffer two weeks out of the month, or I could have three months at a time on a lower dose that still leaves me dealing with moderate symptoms every day but I could have that for three months at a time before I have to have a period again. Is this really the best we can do? Why do I *need* that week off the hormones? If we can entirely skip periods for years at a time with implanted hormone delivery for instance or depo provera, is there a reason we shouldnt do that as we approach menopause?

I love garnny squares, I love the lookof them. There are so many gorgeous granny square types out there, but I honestly hate *using* them as blankets because, wtf, holes, lots of holes. Its not keeping me warm with all this excess ventilation. . Can anyone recommend ways to make a granny square blanket that my toes wont poke through and is useful by itself as a blanket?

The bottoms of my feet have gotten dry and calloused as Ive gotten older. I scrub with a pumice stone here and there, lotion. Doesnt seem to help much. Leery of those foot peel things, do they work? Will I end up with raw sore spots? Any creams that actually work? They just *feel* weird.